Donald James McGonigal
Surrey, British Columbia
Email: donm@kwantlen.bc.ca

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To secure a position in a dynamic company as part of the Information Systems team. I am looking for stability and challenge in a company where my talents and training could be used to accomplish the organization's goals and satisfy my desire for success.


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

November 1995 to Present
Kwantlen University College - System Support Generalist
Covering user support needs at Newton and Surrey campuses. Helpdesk and troubleshooting. Primarily software support. Maintenance of software on Novell Lans in student and teaching labs. Html and Windows software training. Web-Development.

February 1995 to November 1995
Kwantlen University College - Programmer Trainee (Co-op Placement)
Interfaced an Oracle database residing on a Unix system with a spreadsheet and MS Excel 5.0 front-end on a PC using ODBC and Oracle Glue connectors. Also worked as part of Kwantlen's Website Development team. Designed and wrote Kwantlen's Homepage and several connected pages.

May 1994 to September 1994
Process Information Management Consultants - Programmer (Co-op Placement)

Designed and coded users screens to connect a Windows environment front-end with a relational database residing on a VAX.
Software used: Powerhouse(VMS), Powerhouse Windows, SQL,Powerbuilder Enterprise.

October 1991 to December 1992
ANO Office Automation - Marketing Manager

Prepared and implemented marketing materials and television and newspaper advertising; developed trade show themes; wrote and edited the company newsletter; and managed the marketing budget and co-op spending.

September 1990 to October 1991
Tri Tech Computers - Salesperson / Instructor

Inside sales, customer service, system production, technical support and software training. Software packages taught included: MSDOS, Windows 3.x, WordPerfect 5.1 and Excel.

March 1989 toSeptember 1990
ANO Office Automation - Systems Consultant

Inside sales, software support and software training. Software packages taught - CorelDRAW, PageMaker, WordPerfect.

May 1988 to March 1989
A&B Sound - Computer Specialist (Sales)

Duties: Retail computer sales and support

EDUCATION HISTORY:

September 1993 to August 1995
Graduated - Kwantlen University College
- Computer Information Systems Program

1st Semester of study included courses in:
An overview of industry standard software packages
WordPerfect, Lotus, Windows 3.1 and Dbase IV
Turbo Pascal programming
Business Communications and Presentations
Introductory Accounting
statistics

2nd Semester of study included courses in:
Assembler and Cobol programming
Systems Analysis and Design
Unix with C-Shell script writing
Management Accounting
Organizational Behavior

3rd Semester of study included courses in:
C and Advanced Turbo Pascal programming
Systems Design Methodology
Database Management
Data communication and Networks (Netware focus)
The Canadian Economy

4th Semester of study included courses in:
Visual Basic and C++ programming
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Marketing

January 1987 to March 1987
Canadian Travel School - Flight Attendant Training
Three month course with extensive coverage of customer service and interpersonal communication skills.

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:

The Internet - I have been assisting in the re-designing of an Internet Multi-users Game which resides at the University of Ohio (Telnet: 155.229.1.4 2150).

WebPages - During my time working at Kwantlen I have been a part of the WebDev team which is responsible for designing Kwantlen's World Wide Web Site.